Links for a Slow Typhoon Day

I know you must be trapped indoors on this ugly typhoon day -- no rain here yet in central Taiwan so far. So enjoy some links....

• Taiwan should reform its economy to prosper. 
• The Writing Baron on the old Beitou Granary. Such sites are found all over Taiwan.
• Halpin says the MaWangMess is nothing like Watergate. 
• Tourists from India to Taiwan on the rise.
• China's Xi touring Central Asia, where it is a huge investor and power player. China is the major  victor of America's defeats in Iraq and Afghanistan. Its influence in the area is unmatched.
• Off the Beaten Track on the Lost Soul Valley, now buried under a massive landslide, and an abandoned amusement park. Surely this tiny island has more abandoned amusement parks per square kilometer than any similar sized region on earth.
• China sending out more jets to play games with Japan over the Senkakus.
• The South China Sea festers while the US wastes treasure and effort and diplomatic credit in Syria.
• Taipower on a WWII US attack on central Formosa.
• China's economic offensive and Taiwan's defensive measures (academic piece)
• Wasserman: Mankind must focus efforts on Fukushima.
• Oz rips Taiwan's clerics for being homophobic nutjobs.

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